X - Los Angeles CD jazz “Ether” is an exercise in

“Ether” is an exercise in funeral procession piano and intoxicated wordplay (“It's either ether or the other”)

where mechanistic funk and existential despair could catalyse dancefloor mayhem

breathing life into some of the rawest songs he’s ever written into being

but most importantly

X - Los Angeles CD jazz “Ether” is an exercise inMusically, Los Angeles is almost infallible. Your Phones Off the Hook, But Youre Not kicks off with relentless immediacy as if youve jumped into a speeding car on a midnight tour. Doe and Cervenka trade lead vocals and occasionally Cervenka veers stunningly off course in vivid and blistering wails, a Siouxsie Sioux in Southern California. On top of Bonebrakes motoring drums, the songs are dark and doom laden, fiery and mordant. X sings about drugs and